From Chief to Ball

Realistic reformists, segmented revolutionaries, urban trade unionists, natural resources and land public ownership radicals, forced planned immigrants... These contradictions that were suppressed after the disintegration of the Progressive Alliance last time reappeared in the party.

This meeting was not easy. It was also the first enlarged meeting for Chen Jian and others after returning from the global voyage, and it was also a formal meeting to confirm that Chen Jian's private property became party property.

It took a long time for the representatives from all over the country to set sail. In addition, from time to time, there were shipwrecks and things like being blown off the waterway by the wind. It lasted intermittently for more than two months from the arrival of the ship represented by Dahuangcheng at the port of Mincheng. At that time, representatives from all over the country gathered in Mincheng.

The waiting time has changed the season from early summer to late autumn, the canal connecting the iron ore production area in Min County has been officially excavated, and the preparatory committee of Nanyang Public School has invited people from all walks of life to hold a formal ceremony Groundbreaking ceremony.

At the end of autumn, the two representatives of 410 gathered at the Central Party Headquarters of the Mexican Party. Among the two representatives of the 410, besides the people of the Republic, there were also seven immigrants from the Ming Empire from Dahuangcheng, including a woman; two local slaves in Dahuangcheng The former slaves in the city-state, and the labor heroes who pick tobacco leaves in the present-day Great Deserted City.

In addition to the two representatives from 410, taking this opportunity, there are also some observers who came with the ship from various places.

Including two former Confucian Confucianism heresies, idyllic patriarchal young literati of the Taizhou School of Xinxue; an employee from a Dutch shipyard who has not yet clearly distinguished the difference between the future of the Mexican Party and the Church of Heaven, but his thoughts are approaching; and some were invited to All kinds of people visiting Min County.

Many people participated in this enlarged meeting with unprecedented enthusiasm, but soon those enthusiasms turned into confusion—many people were just good moral people and monk-like practitioners, but they were not people who could understand the roots of various ideological trends.

A few days before the official meeting, the quarrel had already occurred.

This is a metamorphosis meeting from the embryonic form of a political party to a formal political party. It will inevitably produce content that needs to be passed, such as the "Constitution", "Declaration", "Party Program", and "Current Work Resolution", but these content can only be placed at the end Formulated and voted on.

Most of the people in this congress were in Min County. They were very enthusiastic about the establishment of the county council in Min County, and believed that this was a good time to realize political ambitions in a place where "the original society already existed". The speech at the beginning also revolved around the various policies of Min County in the future.

Since we want to be the council of Min County, not the council of Min City, the rural issue is an unavoidable issue.

In the final analysis, Mincheng has such a foundation: the emerging capitalists supported by Chen Jian, the commercial capital group that started from maritime trade, the operating capitalist farmers who commercialized cotton and grain, and a large number of pure handicraftsmen and hired workers. In Min County, use one city to fight against the power of the old rural strata in Min County.

However, how to extend control from the city to the countryside?In what way?Is it radical change or regulatory improvement?Do it alone or surround it with the new County Council of United Compromise?

In order to fight against the bourgeoisie’s policy of provoking peasants to suppress the unemployed in the cities by “funding the county’s shelter factories from the rich self-cultivated farmers in Min County to oppose the progressive tax on industry and commerce”, the Mexican Party had previously quelled the uprising of the handicraftsmen and the unemployed in order to gain The support of the peasants, and the promise jointly given by the rest of the Progressive League is "not to increase taxes on self-cultivating farmers, and to reduce rent and interest for landlords in the tenancy system".

This promise made it possible for the bourgeoisie to rely on capital to recruit the urban rogue proletarians to fight back when they suppressed the river valley uprising of the water-powered textile factory. Under the persuasion of the Mexican party, the salaried agricultural employees did not participate in the river valley uprising of the water-powered textile factory, and the tenant farmers of the city's homeless reserve force did not choose to participate in the uprising.

Although the county council is still in preparation, this promise must be fulfilled. If the promise is not fulfilled, the Mexican party can only choose to break with the county council, otherwise it will lose the foundation of rural support.

In Min County, industrial and commercial capital and landlords already have the power to wrestle their hands.

For them, the sooner the rural areas undergo capitalist transformation, the better. On the one hand, cheaper labor and raw materials are available. On the other hand, Nanyang Company chose to merge with some big families in the capital, which led to the excess private capital that originally wanted to invest in Nanyang Company. The increase in land profits caused by the penetration of rural land, the emergence of various new crops, and the inherent contradiction between capital profits and land rents allow them to agree with the movement of reducing rent and interest in rural areas, which is also the bottom line for the Mexican Party to participate in the county council rule system.

The problem lies in the rural policy of reducing rent and interest in Min County to be implemented in this plan, which is still in the category of improvement.

But once this issue was discussed, it caused a fierce quarrel, and all parties insisted on their own opinions.

Party comrades in two different counties of Fujian County made reports on rural surveys on rent reduction and interest reduction. The tenant farmers in the two different counties unexpectedly gave completely contradictory feedback, one county supported and the other opposed.

The reason is not difficult to understand.

Of these two counties, one is very close to Minhe and Mincheng, where capital can easily infiltrate and participate in commercialization; the other is far away from Minhe and Mincheng, and is poor and remote, where capital is not valued and tenant farmers cannot get out. .

In counties that are very close to Mincheng, capitalized land mergers are underway. At this time, rent reduction and interest rate reductions are forcing landlords to carry out land mergers. It's definitely better than renting it to you poor guys.Aren't you engaged in rent reduction and interest rate reduction?Then I won't rent it to you, you go to the city and eat shit.

Wouldn't it be great if I run my own business, hire workers, and participate in commercial sales to make a profit?

What's more, with a large amount of silver flowing into Mincheng, the original currency rent is no longer worthwhile.

However, tenants need to survive, and the previous uprising of the urban unemployed has sounded the alarm for them—we support rent reduction and interest rate reduction, but at the same time we have to formulate a preferential or compulsory tenancy right for us.

You have reduced rent and interest, and the landlord has stopped renting the land to us, what shall we do?Large-scale land management does not require so many hired workers. What do we eat and wear when we flock to the city?Can't survive the uprising and be crushed again?

The tenants asked the members of the Mexican party who went to investigate, can you give us the promise of rent reduction and interest reduction within three generations of landlords and permanent tenancy for three generations?

Not for now.

No, then we do not even support rent reduction and interest rate reduction.

Without reducing rent and interest, we can still be bound to the land by usury like serfs, at least we can live.Rent reduction and interest rate reduction without commitment to permanent tenants, then we are free, and the only choice we may have is to starve to death or wander freely.

The situation is completely opposite in counties that are far away from Mincheng and the Minhe traffic line.

The capital is too lazy to get involved there, the cost of participating in commodity transactions is too high, and the landlords themselves are risky in their own operations, and their conservatism makes them prefer to collect land rent.

Although land has long been privatized and freely traded, non-institutional serfdom based on rural usury still exists. There are no serfs in name, but there are serfs everywhere.

Tenant farmers will definitely support rent reduction and interest rate reduction in this kind of place - anyway, apart from renting this land to our tenant farmers, it is not cost-effective for you to manage it yourself, and the capital of Fujian City will not be willing to set foot in it, and your landlord wants to take back the operation It is not worthwhile to rent out.Our sharecroppers of course support the reduction of rent and interest.

The development of capitalism here is weak, there are not many daily wage workers in agriculture, new seeders and cotton gins are not widely used, and the tenancy system makes the tenants miserable, but at the same time, it does not see capital like counties close to Mincheng. The darkness of doctrine.

Even if the conservative landlords there object, as long as the new council in Min County is bourgeois-democratic, then the Mexican party can justifiably send out working groups and pickets with guns to talk to those conservative landlords.

Chapter 83 Little Things Are Not Small

Just the investigation reports of the two counties caused fierce disputes in this enlarged congress.

Can it be done across the board?

If not one size fits all, how to achieve logical self-consistency?

If you think about it across the board, that's easy. Let Mincheng's council issue a policy to reduce rent and interest while allowing tenants to have ten years of preferential tenancy rights.

The question is, in this way, what is the difference from the practice of those patriarchal guilds and petty bourgeois socialists?They will definitely take the opportunity to launch an attack, asking if the solution of the Mo party is not the same as the proposition of returning to the patriarchal guild?

In this way, it seems that there is no need for an earth-shattering change at all, just a kind and good landowner will solve all problems.

From this logic, it can be deduced that the root of all problems is not a system problem, but a moral problem.As long as the traditional morality is rebuilt, the society does not need to change at all, and it can move forward spontaneously, and there will not be so many problems of unemployment, vagrancy and cotton-eating silkworms.

If you don’t want to make a one-size-fits-all approach, you have to say one, two, three, four, five, and you need a large number of high-quality grassroots party organizations. Seek truth from facts and treat them differently. This is somewhat idealistic and unrealistic.

If you don't want to make one size fits all, and don't talk about the logical self-consistency of one, two, three, four, five, that is, pure practicality completely loses the support of ideas, and the road behind this hole cannot be followed.

The far-futurists believe that since the tenancy system is considered to hinder social development, the preferential tenancy right is reactionary. How is this different from going back to the guild patriarchal era?This is completely an improvement on the original basis. If this is the case, what do we want the Mexican Party to do?A good king and a good sheriff can solve the problem.

Since capital control of land, land mergers, and the influx of rural population into cities to become cheap labor are inevitable, we should of course promote this process.

Objectively speaking, the influx of population into the city reduces the cost of hiring labor, and the speed of capital accumulation is faster. A tortilla can replace a day's labor. This will definitely accelerate the industrial and commercial development of Mincheng at an unprecedented speed, and will All enemies of the export trade were crushed.

Besides, it's not our fault, it's not our Mexican party that caused these people to lose their living conditions. We can't blame us for this, can we?Those who slander us can never blame us for such things as homelessness, unemployment, and land loss.

If we are in power, that is another matter. Of course we have to consider the survival of these people.But we are not now, so we just need to speed up the process of history. The problem is not caused by us, and we will not solve it.

So now our party should promote the process of capitalism in the countryside, and the problems that arise will allow capitalism to go too far. Even at this time, the main force of change is the bourgeoisie, not us.

We should wait for the opportunity, wait until the reform is completed and we have our practical foundation before taking the next step.

At this stage, we should continue to stay silent and dormant, and give the initiative to reform to the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie in Mincheng. Let them take the lead, and we will wait for the future.

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Those based on realism believe that the tenancy system is indeed hindering social development, but the problem is that now you let capital control the land, and you are going to take the improvement route and temporarily stop the revolution of land nationalization and collectivization, what about those tenants who lost their land? ?

Running to the city, can the city accommodate so many laborers?Otherwise, what was the reason for the last uprising?Isn't it because of unemployment, wage drop due to absolute overpopulation, landless peasants flocking to cities that cannot accommodate so many people for the time being?